Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez thanked today the Confederation of Italians in the World (CIM) for bestowing upon him the CIM Man of the Year Seal and the CIM Award of the Year on the Cuban medical brigades that supported the fight against COVID-19 in Italy.

On June 3, Army General Raul Castro will be 91 years old, with more than 60 of them devoted to the revolutionary cause since he was a university student in Havana, when he joined the Socialist Youth and, in 1953, attended the Conference for the Rights of Youth held in Vienna, Australia, in preparation of the 4th World Festival of Youth and Students scheduled for the summer of that year in Bulgaria. However, his rebellious spirit would not remain restricted to political activism while Cuba was suffering a regime of terror after Fulgencio Batista's military coup on March 10, 1952.

On the occasion of the celebration of World Reef Day, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said today on Twitter that we are duty-bound to preserve, manage and use coral reefs sustainably and recalled that Cuba is surrounded by those ecosystems, home to the world’s greatest marine biodiversity.

 Providing Cuban scientists with tools that speed up research is the purpose of the specialists of the BioCubaFarma Business Group’s Information Technology Enterprise (ETI) through the use of Industry 4.0 technologies.

Cuba will commemorate on June 3 the 175th anniversary of the arrival of the first Chinese to the island, which paved the way for the bonding between Cuban and Asian culture.

Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero attended the opening session of the 13th World Congress of the Confederation of Italians around the World.

The Cuban Weather Institute early warning advisory on Tuesday alerted about heavy and intense sustained rains starting June 2 in western and central Cuba.

George Hollingbery KCMG, ambassador of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Cuba, paid a two-day visit to Guantanamo, during which he learned about and praised the cultural and geographic singularities of the easternmost province of Guantanamo.

Carlos Miguel Pereira, Cuban ambassador to China, expressed the gratitude of the Caribbean nation for the Asian country's statement against the U.S. decision to exclude countries from the Summit of the Americas.

The directors of nine permanent working commissions of the National Assembly of People's Power (ANPP) toured today sites of interest in the municipalities of Bayamo and Manzanillo, at the beginning of the parliamentary visit that until June 3 will evaluate programs and priority indicators in Granma province.

The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban communist party and president of the country, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, highlighted on Twitter the elimination as of Tuesday of the mandatory use of masks on the island.
At last without masks, but not always, nor in all situations, the Cuban leader affirmed.

It was the early months of 1960 and plans for the overthrow of the Cuban revolutionary government were being debated among the high U.S. administration. It was Lester Mallory, then Assistant Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, who summarized the principles that still govern the economic and political aggression against the Caribbean nation.

The cyclonic season in the geographical area of the tropical Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, officially begins on Wednesday and lasts until November 30.

The United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization—UNESCO—paid tribute on Monday, in Paris, to the work and life of Havana’s Historian Eusebio Leal (1942-2020).

Cubans will hold a National Animal Health Fair promoting affection, care and protection of animals.